For the second consecutive year Subaru's BRZ sports car has been voted the carsales People's Choice Best Performance Car Under $100,000.

BRZ again won the award in conjunction with the Toyota 86 – both cars are made at Subaru's Gunma factory near Tokyo.

People's Choice Awards give the online audience for the carsales network of automotive websites the chance to choose the most popular vehicles across 13 key categories.

The initial list of potential People's Choice cars was carefully chosen by a team of automotive journalists and key contributors to motoring.com.au, carsales.com.au, CarPoint.com.au and redbook.com.au.

The combined carsales team drives hundreds of new cars each year and chose what they believe are the best of the crop.

In many cases the choices were based on multiple drives of several variants of each car in each category.

The categories also take account of Redbook data including price, size, passenger capacity and other category specific factors.
Since launch in July 2012, BRZ has won multiple awards locally and overseas including:

  • motoring.com.au 2013 "Recommends" award - a preferred performance car under $100,000
  • News Limited Carsguide People's Choice Award
  • TopGear Australia Fun-est Car of the Year 2012
  • Wheels Car of the Year 2012
  • News Limited/Carsguide Car of the Year 2012
  • Carsales Australia network's People's Choice Best Performance Car Under $100,000 (with the Toyota 86)
  • Best of 2013 – cars.com (USA, with Scion FR-S)
  • Best Buy for 2012 - Australian automotive website themotorreport.com.au
  • Best Sports Car of 2013, from the Canadian Autos.ca website
  • BRZ engine – winner, 2013 Ward's 10 "Best Engines", United States
  • 2013 Sports Car of the Year by Canadian website Auto123.com
  • 2012-2013 Japan Car of the Year "Special Award" (with the Toyota 86)
  • 2012 Sports Car of the Year in French car magazine, Echappement

For further information, contact:

David Rowley
National Corporate Affairs Manager
Subaru Australia
Telephone: (02) 8892 9853
Mobile: 0418 237 252
Fax: (02) 8892 9121
E-mail: david.rowley@subaru.com.au